On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:24:35AM +0200, Anton Burkhalter wrote:
Henrik,
here is a script which produces the following output on Tru64 V5.1B
hobbit at hifpxx31 $ ./memory.sh ... ... "status myhost,my,domaine.memory green Sun Aug 7 10:02:54 MEST 2005 Memory OK Memory Used Total Percentage &green Physical 1951M 2048M 95% &green Swap 1553M 8192M 18% "
Thanks, but I'd really like to see what the "swapon -s" output looks like. This script works fine for a client that generates the status messages itself, but it's too heavy for the Hobbit client design.
(My idea with the Hobbit client is to have as little "intelligence" in the client as possible - I prefer to do very little processing of the data on the client, and just forward all of the raw output to the Hobbit server. That lets the admin see exactly what the system says about itself - sometimes these commands report things that don't show up in the interpreted data used for the Hobbit status messages. E.g. the "vmstat -P" output on OSF has a detailed break-down of how the memory is used, which might be useful when you get a memory-alert and need to know WHY all of the memory is gone. Instead of having to login to the box and run commands to figure it out, you can dig into the raw client-data which is available directly in Hobbit, and get the information you need. The fact that it also lets you centralize the alert configuration and potentially do some event correlation between different systems is just an added bonus).
Regards, Henrik